Posted on 07/21/2013 9:43:13 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
This is actually a big reason for industries leaving cities and going off to suburbs or new cities. The EPA applies such strict standards to old industrial sites that force a prospective new user of the land to clean it up to pristine condition that it is easier to just buy some farmland on the edge of town and build a factory there.
This is entirely an effect of government policy. While the most serious health threatening pollution should be addressed, if it was a factory, and is zoned for a factory, and the city wants a factory to be there, there is no reason to clean it up to pristine condition before you slap another factory down on the land. There is no reason to build a new factory on the edge of town, taking up farmland, and allowing the old polluted factory land to rot and return to wilderness, when the old factory location was closer to railroads, ports and other infrastructure.
If government really wanted to help rust belt cities, it would relax these regulations.
Within 10 years they should rename it to North Haiti.
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Demos are doing for the USA what they’ve done for Detriot for the last 50 years.
We have been screaming for decades.
We all saw this coming.
We tried to save ya.
You know what comes next?
They hand us the bill.
Duck you suckers.
You’re not supposed to say the real reason port au prince nord fell apart.
But it did make me wonder today: where are all the black investors?
Jay-z, a man worth 600 million, is steaming and screaming about Saint Trayvon and how the whit man be keeping the black man down.
There are no whites left in Detroit to speak of.
So he could be investing there and employing his brothers.
But yet he doesn’t. Just complains and demonstrates.
Funny that.
“If government really wanted to help rust belt cities, it would relax these regulations.”
Federal policies, starting with the Great Society programs in 1965, which told fathers they weren’t really needed in the family, are just the tip of the spear that led to Detroit’s demise.
Detroit was plagued for years by racial politics, led by Coleman Young, which drove “whitey” and his tax dollars out of town.
The final nail in Detroit’s coffin, which has been repeated in numerous medium and large cities throughout the nation, is the unholy symbiosis that exists between public sector unions and Democrat politicians. The former would ask for and get outlandish contracts; way out of line with private sector unions. In return, these unions would organize their money and manpower to get out the vote for these same politicians who were letting unions like AFSCME, SEIU, MEA, and police and firefighter unions fleece the system.
In fact, Detroit has residency laws on the books so that cops and firefighters have to live in the city to be employed there, assuring that these same people would cast their votes in Detroit for the same politicians that were participating in and contributing to the death spiral of a wholly corrupt quid pro quo system!
And the giveaways at the Federal level represent the same problem at a much larger scale!
Detroit is a microcosm of government and socialist policies working as intended.
There ya go.
He has no brothers
Detroit is ground zero for democrat graft and corruption, and should be held up as a shining example of liberal policies, the politicians that implement them, and the caliber of inhabitants that enthusiastically cheer it on at the voting booth. Put it on a pedestal with spot lights as exhibit “A”.
Obama’s socialist/democrat America.
9) An astounding 47 percent of the residents of the city of Detroit are functionally illiterate.
My small southern home town had a population of around 5,000 in 1970 with about 40% black. Now the population is around 4,000 with 80% black.
A serious question: What is the solution?
If they could print their own money we’d have our own Zimbabwe.
The solution is to stand up and tell them to sit down, but we all know that is verboten. It would be mean even if you love them.
SO we must all suffer
Holder say we must all suffer, Obama says we should all suffer, even as they dictate from the house on the hill eating waygu beef and having ice cream and giving us the guilt trip.
I am a long suffering fellow but I call BS.
Shaking head? No.
Nodding head? Yes.
This is the inevitable product of all those leftist policies and politicians.
Gotta get rid of a lot of people.
And they want to let 11 million some mexicans to stay here free.
The elite is getting richer, while the middle class and lower class get poorer at this point.
Revolution, secession is the only answer.
Or West Palestine.
This is what happens when you hand over your automobile and electronics manufacturing base, first to the Japanese and years later, the rest of what was left of our economy, over to China.
This was in the making way before ZERO was old enough to do any damage.
We are a nation of dumbed-down half-wits who are engaged in selling “services” to each other.
Then the question is how do you “get rid of a lot of people”?
It’s obvious “getting rid” of people is why the liberal politicians are all for abortion. The people buy into the “choice” BS.
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